Ironblade

No, Yomo is correct. Everyone literally CAN do it. If it's privilege in any way at all, it's the privilege of having more experience with the game. It seems to me this is common to all games: you start out not being very good at it. You don't know how to make money. You don't know the enemy powers. You don't know the mechanics of the game engine. You don't know the enemy AI. Out of all the activities in the game, you don't even know which you enjoy or if you will enjoy any of it. Play and discover.

Eh, it comes down to experience. I've made so many of every AT that I have a pretty good idea how everything should be. How confident am I that the character is slotted very well? 100% certain. How confident am I that the slotting is optimal? Don't know and don't care.

BORING. I was hoping for something more like this guy.

That wiki is out of date garbage that has never been updated, had gotten infected with malware, and should be avoided at all costs. The Homecoming wiki says, in multiple places, that Katie Hannon awards 26 merits. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Katie_Hannon_Task_Force Huh, difference between shards, maybe? Because that has not been my experience AT ALL. I never have any problem recruiting for Tarikoss and rarely stealth any of it and NEVER stealth the final map.

Perhaps, during the character creation it only checks to see if the name is already taken by another player. Then, when you try to actually enter the game, it checks against another list of names that are used by characters in-game or simply prohibited for various reasons. That's my best guess.

You'll surely be happy to hear that it's considerably easier to make money and most stuff is cheaper than it was back on live. Plus, there's a new update on the test server that adds some features to the 'New Player Experience' since there has been a large influx of new players due to the announcement of Homecoming reaching an official licensing agreement with NCSoft. Also, be sure to visit the Pay2Win Vendor. There is one standing in Atlas Park, on the left side of the big square platform (if you stand facing the front of City Hall). There are a number of free powers (like Ninja Run and the 30 second Jump Pack), many cheap ones (like the jet packs) and some pricey but useful ones (like the mission teleporter, team transporter, etc). And, worth mentioning since the offer expires at the end of this month, Yomo will give 100 million inf to anyone who asks. See this thread for info. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/43870-yomos-new-and-improved-bang-up-salmagundi-spectacular/#comment-570668

Citadel probably deserves MORE than triple the merits. Tarikoss is both easy AND fun. Citadel is easy in a bad way (kill everything in the mission, now do it again, and again) and a tedious slog. Also, the wiki says Katie Hannon awards 26 merits which, frankly, seems overly generous to me. Is that figure incorrect?

As if. Aside from brief blips, the economy has been steadily improving and is VASTLY better than it was back on live. That last part is absolutely indisputable. I would conclude you don't really understand the game economy and this is causing you to misinterpret what you see.

To be fair, there is actually a word for it: scrapperlock. That's when you get in the enemy's face and beat them until you or they die.

Maybe it gets saved along with the other stuff when you save your window layout?

The text command is /camdist nnn I don't think there's a way to permanently set a default for new characters.

Look. I made a character named 594rk because 5p4rk was taken. It just takes a little imagination. And no, I'm not kidding. That's the name of my level 50 electric/electric tank.

If you don't remember it being this rough, then your mind is playing tricks on you about 'the good old days'. The in-game economy is DRAMATICALLY better than it was back on live. Prices for the 'good stuff' on the auction house are far lower than back on live. I mean, the +3% resistance unique cost me 2 billion inf back on live. Also, it's easier than ever to earn influence. The one factor that might be working against you is the common practice of getting the free double XP buff and/or playing on one of the servers that currently has an XP buff to attract new players. These make you level faster without increasing your influence (and actually decreasing your earnings in the case of the Pay2Win XP buffs). Final note: If you're genuinely struggling, plenty of people will throw money at you. Go to the thread linked below for info on how to have Yomo send you 100 million inf. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/43870-yomos-new-and-improved-bang-up-salmagundi-spectacular/#comment-570668

I don't expect him to take you up on this offer.

Characters disappearing and deleted ones reappearing is very unlikely. However, what happens quite often is that the character LISTING, which is stored locally on your computer, gets screwed up. We've seen that happen a lot. This is the file that keeps track of the character position in the list when you move them around. The file is under /Homecoming/accounts/(your account name)/playerslot.txt There will be one of these in each account folder. Try deleting that and see if it fixes it. Deleting this file doesn't delete anything, it just removes the record of what order they are displayed in.

Oh, very good. Yes, that does seem to be what is going on. Good to know. I'm going to leave the blank lines in because it makes the file easier for me to read.

Yeah, this is the one I use. It's excellent.

Well, it's a mystery to me. I wonder if there's some setting that one of us changed and forgot about. This is what it looks like when I load binds and it has always looked like this for me. Edit: By the way, this display is wonky as hell. Each load, it only displays about 14 of the bind commands from a file that has like four dozen. They all load correctly, but only a handful are displayed. And it doesn't display the same ones each time. Not sure what that means, if anything.

Wow, I bet that burn really hurt. I understand vampires are vulnerable to fire.

Ankle Bitter? Exasperated about your ankles? 🙂

If it was a change, it wasn't recent. I don't remember it ever working differently.

Yeah, that's crummy. When someone asks to join my team but has to switch, I actually click their name in the tell so I can get their global so I can be sure I'm getting the right person after they switch.

Yeah, that's nuts. I was playing something else online with my family and figured, "Eh, I'll do the donation when we're done here." Five hours later and it was too late. I'll have to get in earlier next month.

I would respectfully suggest you're storing a lot of junk that really is not worth storing. I have more than 50 characters and my girlfriend has a couple dozen. We don't have the max number of storage items and have plenty of space. Back on live (we're talking almost 20 years ago), I kept all kinds of stuff that "I might need". Now I just hold onto stuff that's clearly super useful and/or high value.

If you need more money, one of the richest people in the game gives 100 million to anyone who asks. See this thread for info: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/43870-yomos-new-and-improved-bang-up-salmagundi-spectacular/ You can right-click on people to bring up a menu. One of the options is Add Player Note. You can rate a person 1-5 stars and add a note. This is stored on YOUR computer and absolutely no one else can see it. Then, if you go into the game options, you can set it so that the stars will always appear above the persons head when you see them so you can instantly spot trouble-makers (1 star) or your best pals (5 stars) or anything in between.